Why President Obama Should be Impeached – Now
This isn’t the first time that I thought President Obama
should be impeached. But something has
changed.
I don’t expect most people, even elected ones, to understand
how government debt hurts the economy, how inflation is caused by government
policies (I include the Federal Reserve here.), and how it cheats people out of
their money. There are a lot of other
common government practices where most people just don’t understand the bigger
picture; they just accept the story they are told at face value.
But something has happened which everybody can understand
and which, in spite of all the perceived benefits of an Obama presidency,
should cause them to rise up and put an end to it.
It has now been proven that President Obama is a liar. I don’t mean just the fact that he lied at
some point in the past, but that he has been shown to lie regularly.
Now I am the first to admit that not all lies are the same,
and everybody at some time or other has been or is less than truthful.
“Do these pants make me look fat?” “How do you like my new outfit?” “How was the meal?”
Many of us know the feeling when a parent, spouse, or boss
asked us in an angry tone of voice whether we had done such and such a
thing. The fear of the possible
repercussions made us afraid to be totally honest.
But President Obama has been shown to have lied over and
over with regard to his health care plan.
The whole story of this bill’s passage is one filled with examples of
corruption, bribery, lies, and manipulation.
Obama pledged before his election that every bill would be posted on the
internet for three days before voting so everybody would have a chance to read
and comment on it. This was a bill that
had to be passed so we would know what was in it.
But I digress.
In trying to sell this bill to America, Obama lied. And lied.
And lied. The same ones over and
over.
The whole point is that, when a person has been found to be
a liar, their credibility is destroyed.
You never know any more when they are telling the truth.
When Obama says that we need to have the NSA spy on us for
national security reasons, is he telling the truth?
When he tells us we need to arm the rebels in Syria for our
own security, can we believe him? Should
we?
When Obama says that Iran will not get a nuclear weapon
under his watch, can we believe him?
When he says that, when Obamacare is fully implemented, we
will all be happy, can we trust him?
Once you know somebody is a liar, you never know when he is
telling the truth.
The problem here, of course, is that Obama is our
President. If we don’t know when he is
telling us the truth, he has forfeited his right to be our President.
At this point, it will be asked if a President can be
impeached for being a liar.
The answer is yes. A
president does not need to commit a criminal offense. He does not need to break any laws per
se. The reasons can “include[e] serious
abuses of power and attempts to subvert the Constitution,” “offenses which proceed from the misconduct
of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public
trust.”
“ . . . linking impeachable offenses to crime would be bad
policy because such a definition would be both too broad and too narrow. It
would be too broad because it would include crimes with no functional
relationship to malfeasance or abuse of office, such as driving while
intoxicated. It would also be too narrow because it would protect many abuses
of office that are not crimes – such as the executive’s abuse of the pardon power,
or a judge’s refusal to decide any cases.”
“An impeachable high crime or misdemeanor is one in its
nature or consequences subversive of some fundamental or essential principle of
government or highly prejudicial to the public interest, and this may consist
of a violation of the Constitution, of law, of an official oath, or of duty, by
an act committed or omitted, or, without violating a positive law, by the abuse
of discretionary powers from improper motives or for an improper purpose.”[1]
If you cannot reasonably assume that the President is
telling the truth, then how can he lead our country? You will never know if he is lying until the
damage is done. That is no way to run a
country.
There has been talk in the past about impeachment for
President Obama, but this was discouraged, because impeachment was considered
pointless, seeing that the Senate has enough Democrats to defeat any attempts
to remove Obama from office.
Well, that’s their choice.
But for the House to overlook these enormous violations of the public
trust is itself a violation of the public trust. The House is the branch of government closest
to the people it represents. If they
don’t stand for us against this bold, blatant disregard for common decency,
then we are doomed.
